échevin
The verdict
“échevin” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #27,666 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #27,666
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Dans l’empire carolingien (à partir du IXᵉ siècle), juge adjoint du tribunal comtal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échevin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃ(ə)vɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “échevin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for échevin is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʃ(ə)vɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,666 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for échevin, with forms such as "céhevin", "echevin", and "écchevin". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "échevins", "échelon", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is échevin, spelled É-C-H-E-V-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dans l’empire carolingien (à partir du IXᵉ siècle), juge adjoint du tribunal comtal.
- 2Dans les villes du Nord de la France (puis dans la plupart des villes du royaume de France), magistrat municipal (fonction aujourd’hui dévolue au seul maire qui préside la municipalité au nom du peuple souverain, mais avec des pouvoirs plus limités) dont la charge était de représenter les pouvoirs fondamentaux du souverain sur ses terres, et donc d’y faire appliquer le droit des individus et sociétés, d’y organiser la police et la perception pour lui des taxes et de l’échet.
- 3Membre du collège communal à fonction exécutoire présidé par le bourgmestre, chargé d’un domaine de l’administration communale. Il est élu par le conseil communal en son sein, une entité distincte à fonction décisionnelle.
- 4Adjoint au maire, conseiller municipal représentant d’un quartier donné.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: céhevin,echevin,écchevin,écehvin,écheivn,échevinn,échevni,échevvin,échhevin,échvein,éhcevin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of échevin - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "échevin"
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “échevin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-C-H-E-V-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.ʃ(ə)vɛ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “échevins” - see the side-by-side comparison. échevin vs échevins
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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